North Korea held a cabinet-level meeting to discuss the issue of agricultural stability on Wednesday amid fears of food shortages, state media KCNA reported. | Reuters
SEOUL – North Korea held a cabinet-level meeting to discuss the issue of agricultural stability on Wednesday amid fears of food shortages, state media KCNA reported on Thursday.
The meeting led by Kim Tok Hun, premier of the cabinet, saw senior officials come up with “various detailed action plans” to ensure stable agricultural production, the report said.This comes after leader Kim Jong Un urged officials to engineer a “fundamental transformation” in agricultural production during the seventh enlarged plenary meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea last month.
South Korean lawmakers, citing intelligence officials, said earlier this month that the North was facing an annual rice shortage of 800,000 tonnes and that the current food shortage situation was caused by the country’s grain policy, distribution problems and the COVID-19 situation.
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